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- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
Mary White: What are we going to do? The people are crying out.
- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
Mary White: Do not correct me, please, Chairman.
- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
Mary White: When is that going to happen?
- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
Mary White: The Minister promised it would happen in the first quarter.
- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
Mary White: My argument against it is not improper. The banks are codding everybody.
- Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements, Questions and Answers (6 Mar 2012)
Mary White: He has a big job to do.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: An tAire Post, Fiontar agus NuálaÃochta was with us yesterday. There was most a most disappointing presentation from the Minister. He failed to acknowledge that the most important issue facing Irish companies is the lack of access to credit and cash. We need the Minister for Finance to attend the House to explain. The banks have received â¬70 billion from the State to date. Professor...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: I have already said that I would like the Minister for Finance to attend the House to tell us what he is going to do in this regard. Some â¬3.5 billion was supposed to be released into the economy by AIB and the Bank of Ireland every year, but they are not doing so. At the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis, Deputy Micheál Martin said that if banks will not release funding then it is time to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: We have no money to do it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: That is silly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: The Senator interrupted me in the past.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: What about the availability of credit for indigenous companies?
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: It is not working.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: It is not working.
- Seanad: Early Intervention and Family Support Services: Statements (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: When the Minister was Leader of the Opposition in the Seanad, she played a very vibrant role in highlighting issues relating to children. I produced my policy document, A New Approach to Childcare. All of us together were part of getting the Government to introduce the free child-care scheme, which has made a dramatic change in the lives of children, particularly those from disadvantaged...
- Seanad: Early Intervention and Family Support Services: Statements (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: Excuse me, Madam, I have a very serious question to ask the Minister.
- Seanad: Early Intervention and Family Support Services: Statements (7 Mar 2012)
Mary White: I will leave it and will talk to the Minister again about it if I am taking up anybody else's time. I feel very emotional about it. The family is not able to stay in the one establishment because of relationships with other people around them. I visited the latest place two weeks ago and had to walk out in shock. In the previous place they lived the six children were going to school and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)
Mary White: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)
Mary White: Much as I like Senator Conway, Fine Gael never had 4,000 people at its conferences.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)
Mary White: The current Government is offering no hope.